05.03.10
Posted in GNU/Linux, HP, Microsoft, Vista 7, Windows at 11:06 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: HP’s Windows-based Slate is declared dead just days after it turns out that Courier too is history; Vista 7 is said to be replaceable by WebOS, which HP has just acquired
HP does not like Vista 7. How do we know? HP is said to be dumping it, only to have it replaced by GNU/Linux or other form factors. TechCrunch reported a few months ago that HP had already been testing GNU/Linux on the Slate (although not in official demos). The following two items seem to confirm the news:
i. iPad Killer Killed (they ‘forget’ or left out GNU/Linux)
Hate the iPad because it’s by Apple, and therefore nothing but fashion-driven tech with no real reason to live? Furious because you couldn’t open it up, swap out the processor, upgrade the memory, install Ubuntu and force the iPod to convert everything to Ogg Vorbis as the default?
ii. Hewlett-Packard To Kill Windows 7 Tablet Project
Hewlett-Packard has killed off its much ballyhooed Windows 7 tablet computer, says a source who’s been briefed on the matter.
The device was first unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at CES 2010 in January and was supposed to hit the market in mid 2010. But our source tells us that HP is not satisfied with Windows 7 as a tablet operating system and has terminated the project (something CrunchGear mentioned months ago).
The latest news is a big blow to Microsoft and it comes amid powwow that Courier's death had generated just before the weekend. Microsoft’s list of dead products is growing rapidly and adding insult to injury, it might be Free software — not proprietary software — which is going to replace Windows.
Here is another possible explanation of what HP is doing with “Slate”.
The latest buzz doing rounds on the popular gadget blogs is that, both Microsoft’s surreal “Courier” as well as HP “Slate” are dead. While Microsoft has just provided a hint towards what they call as “they may not be interested” for the development of “Courier” right now. But shockingly, most of the blogosphere is fueling stories about HP Slate being dead already. That too without any evident reasons !
Incidentally, LinuxDevices.com says that “HP tips its ARM netbook hand” (Vista 7 does not run on ARM architecture).
HP’s ARM-powered Android netbook has surfaced on the company’s U.S. website, suggesting it may be headed for a North American release. Branded as the “Compaq AirLife 100,” the netbook includes a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 512MB of RAM and 16MB of flash storage, a 10.1-inch display, and GPS capabilities, the company says.
Information on HP’s Compaq AirLife 100 — like Lenovo’s Skylight, one of the only 1GHz ARM-based netbooks to have been announced by a major vendor — was leaked in February by Engadget Espanol and The Inquirer. The former website claimed the device is headed for the U.K. on the O2 Network (Telefonica Europe), and the latter said it’s headed for Telefonia in Spain.
Our proposal/open letter to Palm is no longer applicable because HP just bought it very shortly afterwards. Hans from LXer writes: “I’ve been preaching desktop-Windows and Intel x86 are not suited for tablets, smartbooks and smartphones for some months now. I’ve even called the JooJoo, WePad and Slate ‘the Epic Fail of the decade’. Would I qualify as a TechAnalyst now?”
This change in form factors is indeed challenging the status of the so-called ‘desktop’ and it’s a huge opportunity for GNU/Linux growth. Microsoft is left out because it has no attractive offerings in this area (neither in hardware nor software form). █
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Posted in Microsoft, Vista, Vista 7, Vista 8, Windows at 10:38 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: Vista 7 has some more serious bugs that only get discussed in forums but not yet in the mainstream press
THE release of Microsoft’s latest Windows ,which is just Vista with some necessary-but-insufficient fixes*, was released in a rush because sales of Windows declined very, very sharply. The release of Vista 7 did not restore sales (Microsoft Windows profits continue to decline over the years, largely because of GNU/Linux).
A couple of weeks ago we found that McAfee had scraped Windows [1, 2, 3] (compensation is being offered now) but Windows too turns out to be scraping Windows, according to this summary from Slashdot, which points to microsoft.com
where a person says:
I did a clean install of Win7 about 3 1/2 weeks ago and have had no problems. 2 days ago I discovered that no system restore points were available. After spending many hours researching the issue, I’ve taken the following steps but none have helped:
1. Completely uninstalled AVG and installed Microsoft Security Essentials.
2. Tried turning off System Restore, rebooting, turning it back on.
3. Checked the SR schedule in Task Scheduler, all seems fine. It creates restore points just fine, it just won’t keep them on reboot.
4. Scanned computer thoroughly with three different anti-malware programs, no problems found.
5. Did a sfc /scannnow, no problems reported.
No, I’m not running a system with dual booting.
Slashdot says that “Win7 Can Delete All System Restore Points On Reboot” and the concise description is as follows: “Astonishingly, the so-called system restore feature in Windows 7 deletes restore points without warning when the system is rebooted. This forum thread on answers.microsoft.com shows some of the users who have experienced the problem. Today I did a clean install of Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit (no dual boot), and noticed that whenever the machine rebooted after installing an application or driver, the disk churned for several minutes on the ‘starting Windows’ screen. Turns out that churning was the sound of my diligently created system restore points being deleted. Unfortunately I only found this out when Windows barfed at a USB dongle and I wanted to restore the system to an earlier state. This is an extraordinarily bad bug, which I suspect most Windows 7 users won’t realise is affecting them until it’s too late.”
Well, that’s what people get for assuming that Windows is predictable and reliable. Microsoft makes false promises every time a new version comes. Is it time to hype up Vista 8 yet? Surely the next version will Fix Everything™. █
“In the face of strong competition, Evangelism’s focus may shift immediately to the next version of the same technology, however. Indeed, Phase 1 (Evangelism Starts) for version x+1 may start as soon as this Final Release of version X.”
–Microsoft, internal document [PDF]
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* Our reader who is a former Microsoft MVP says that Vista with Service Pack is more reliable and polished than Vista 7.
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Posted in Deception, Free/Libre Software, Microsoft at 10:06 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: Gartner, Black Duck, SAP and other friends of Microsoft encircle Free/open source software for interjection and distortion of the basic terms
ENOUGH has been written here about the corrupt Gartner Group and how it operates. Bill Gates is among its big investors and Microsoft a major client. Another company which was actually created by a Microsoft employee to later masquerade as a Free/open source authority (while only developing proprietary software and software patents) is Black Duck.
One reader showed us that this new webinar requires annotation because it is hosted by Free software foe SAP along with Black Duck.
“[N]ow they’re calling they have always been doing as Open Source.”
–Anonymous readerOur reader writes to explain the issue: “Five will get you ten that it’s more of the same anti-FOSS talking points and usual Party Line drivel from Microsoft Partners except now they’re calling they have always been doing as Open Source. [...] It seems that the methods and message from Microsoft are the same. It talks through its partners. What has changed is that the title of their usual monkey business is changed and one or two celebrities from FOSS are brought in as keynote speakers to try to lend an appearance of legitimacy.”
In addition to this, some days ago in the press archive (largely or entirely ignored by all the news sites) we found Black Duck receiving more of that legitimacy it requires from Gartner [1, 2, 3]. Historically, for obvious reasons, Gartner has been hostile towards Free software (it doesn’t pay Gartner’s bills) and favourable towards patenting of software. It’s all just a gentlemen’s club where one does a favour to a fellow member who defends the club’s interests.
Speaking of which, the same reader tells us: “President Obama was in Estonia recently to speak in Tallin. You study the Microsoft attacks against the US, well it was interesting to notice that Microsoft evangelist and its chief lobbyist, Warren Buffett, was mentioned by name by the President.
“Buffett as you might remember is one of the primary financiers of Bill Gates’ political action committee and lobbying organ, The Gates Foundation.”
The Free software world probably knows Estonia because of the Windows botnets [1, 2] that attacked it and because it has a prominent Microsoft crony/booster inside the Commission (Siim Kallas [1, 2, 3]). █
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Posted in Google, Microsoft, Novell, Search at 4:49 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: A timely comparison between what Microsoft does to Yahoo! and what Microsoft does to Novell in order to turn any competitor into an ally
Microsoft’s corporate hijack of Yahoo! is almost complete now that former Microsoft executives and partners run the company and those who remained inside Yahoo! are leaving too (this company’s Consumer Products Head is the latest departure). It is not troubling news for Microsoft’s insider who is running the company and is said to receive $47 million in benefits. What a disgusting display of power from Microsoft. It’s likely that no laws are broken here, not even when Microsoft hires AstroTurfers to undermine Yahoo! and Google.
“Microsoft is said to have paid Verizon half a billion dollars to dump Google and channel all customers in Microsoft’s direction.”A few months ago we wrote about Microsoft’s deal with Verizon [1, 2]. Microsoft is said to have paid Verizon half a billion dollars to dump Google and channel all customers in Microsoft’s direction. Novell’s very recent deal with Verizon [1, 2] came just shortly later (see the press release [1, 2, 3] and new coverage from the press in New England and elsewhere [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]). It is worth keeping track of this because Microsoft to Novell is in many ways like Microsoft to Yahoo!
Novell has also been occupied by former Microsoft executives/boosters over the past few years (the same goes for European regulators to a lesser extent). In turn, judging by the past week’s news, former Novell staff finds itself in top Diebold positions. Another new example of a person with past inside Novell is David Fleck, who becomes a marketing vice president.
The company also announced that David Fleck, former vice president of marketing and business development for Second Life, has joined IMVU as vice president of marketing.
More of Novell’s former PR staff finds itself inside a new host.
A tech PR agency veteran with client experience including HP, Lenovo and Novell, Margherita thrives on European PR strategy and campaign coordination. Steve Loynes, director at Chameleon, says: “Margherita’s international background and extensive experience is hugely relevant for our international work and we are pleased to have her on board.”
What PR people do is spread dishonesty with apparent sincerity. Here for example is Novell’s latest PR response to an article about Red Hat:
A recent article in in TechTarget has speculated that only one commercial Linux vendor will prevail and be viable in the data center, arguing that Novell and others won’t be able to compete. This kind of simplistic analysis makes for a good headline but, we believe, is bad research based on faulty logic and a selective use of the facts.
What a group of hypocrites. If anyone makes use of “faulty logic and a selective use of the facts” it’s Novell’s PR department. We gave a very large number of examples before. Does Novell’s PR department consider itself the foundation of truth now? PR is of course derived from propaganda. █
“[The Novell/Microsoft package] provides IP peace of mind for organizations operating in mixed source environments.”
–Ian Bruce, Novell’s PR Director
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Posted in Mail, Microsoft, Novell, Vista 7, Windows at 4:18 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
“[The partnership with Microsoft is] going very well insofar as we originally agreed to co-operate on three distinct projects and now we’re working on nine projects and there’s a good list of 19 other projects that we plan to co-operate on.”
–Ron Hovsepian, Novell CEO
Summary: “Everything Microsoft” inside Novell SecureLogin 7.0 SP1; Novell’s own installbase on Windows continues to decline
BASED on new posts such as this one, it is easy to see why Novell develops and promotes Mono and Moonlight while occasionally boosting Vista 7. Here are the latest SecureLogin “enhancements”:
The new enhancements include:
* Next-generation integration wizard for faster application enablement and a shorter, error-free deployment
* Support for .NET applications, Winforms & WPF
* Support for Microsoft Windows 7 (32 & 64 bit)
* Support for Citrix XenApp 5
Judging by the above, Novell is not much of a GNU/Linux company. It’s not.
Novell’s loss of big clients has been covered by the following sources over the past week:
IDG: Oregon Schools To Use Google Apps–And Why Microsoft Should Worry (more here and here)
The City of Los Angeles recently announced plans to migrate its 30,000 employees from Novell GroupWise to Google’s collaborative suite.
The Inquirer: Los Angeles snubs Microsoft for Google
The city has been using Novell Groupwise collaboration software but has found that its mailbox sizes are too small for its needs.
Washington Technology: The City of Angels soars into a cloud
The companies are building a cloud e-mail system to replace the existing Novell GroupWise service for the city’s municipal agencies using Google’s suite of Web-based productivity tools.
The Ithacan: ITS to switch campus server from Novell
Information Technology Services is putting the final touches on plans to migrate student and faculty users off the Novell network operating system onto a new system, making campus computer use more efficient.
As long as Novell loses business, a sale of Novell becomes more inevitable. The worth of Novell keeps declining though. The workforce is also being moved to India and to the far east. Sandeep Menon, Novell’s Country Head in India, was speaking to the Indian press some days ago, but this issue did not come up. █
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Posted in Apple, GNU/Linux, Google, Microsoft, Patents at 4:01 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
![Steve Jobs Steve Jobs](http://boycottnovell.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/411px-Steve_Jobs.jpg)
Original photo by Matthew Yohe, modified by Techrights for humour
Summary: Apple and Microsoft share tactical moves in their fight against common enemies, notably Linux and disablers of software patents
Increasing amounts of analysis and interpretation, not just anecdotal evidence, may suggest a correlation between Apple’s action against HTC/Android and Microsoft’s action against HTC/Android. At the very least, Apple and Microsoft fight against the freedom of software and the low cost which hits proprietary software’s business paradigms at their very core (no software acquisition costs, as opposed to costs associated with services and no revenue from patents on codecs for example).
Yesterday we wrote about Apple shutting down Lala shortly after acquiring it. We explained that it could have something to do with Apple's relationships inside the copyright cartel. Apple is also promoting software patents and working against Ogg Theora. Hugo Roy’s open letter, which shows this rather clearly, has just received a lot of attention, starting with his blog post that reached Slashdot.
May I remind you that H.264 is not an open standard? This video codec is covered by patents, and “vendors and commercial users of products which make use of H.264/AVC are expected to pay patent licensing royalties for the patented technology” (ref). This is why Mozilla Firefox and Opera have not adopted this video codec for their HTML5 implementation, and decided to chose Theora as a sustainable and open alternative.
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From: Steve Jobs
To: Hugo Roy
Subject: Re:Open letter to Steve Jobs: Thoughts on Flash
Date 30/04/2010 15:21:17
All video codecs are covered by patents. A patent pool is being assembled to go after Theora and other “open source” codecs now. Unfortunately, just because something is open source, it doesn’t mean or guarantee that it doesn’t infringe on others patents. An open standard is different from being royalty free or open source.
Sent from my iPad
Since it was an open letter, I think I have the right to publish his answer.
Xiph already has a response about Apple: “It would only strengthen the pushback against software patents and add to Apple’s increasing PR mess.”
To quote more fully:
Here is Montgomery’s response:
Thomson Multimedia made their first veiled patent threats against Vorbis almost ten years ago. MPEG-LA has been rumbling for the past few years. Maybe this time it will actually come to something, but it hasn’t yet. I’ll get worried when the lawyers advise me to; i.e., not yet.
The MPEG-LA has insinuated for some time that it is impossible to build any video codec without infringing on at least some of their patents. That is, they assert they have a monopoly on all digital video compression technology, period, and it is illegal to even attempt to compete with them. Of course, they’ve been careful not to say quite exactly that.
If Jobs’s email is genuine, this is a powerful public gaffe (‘All video codecs are covered by patents.’) He’d be confirming MPEG’s assertion in plain language anyone can understand. It would only strengthen the pushback against software patents and add to Apple’s increasing PR mess. Macbooks and iPads may be pretty sweet, but creative individuals don’t really like to give their business to jackbooted thugs.
The FFII’s president says that “MPEGLA will go after Theora, Apple and Microsoft, along with a host of tech companies, are also members of MPEGLA” (MPEG-LA's CEO Larry Horn is a patent troll who extorts 'on the side').
Here is some of the press coverage about the implicit threat from Steve Jobs:
• Steve Jobs: mystery patent pool to attack Ogg Theora
• Patent Pool to Thwart Open Source Codecs
• Apple May Be Gunning for Open Source Codecs
• Patent challenge looming for open-source codecs?
If authentic, a new e-mail from Steve Jobs indicates that Apple and Microsoft–of all bedfellows–could be preparing to challenge the validity of open-source video codecs.
Jobs’ e-mail to Hugo Roy of the Free Software Foundation Europe, coupled with a similarly worded announcement from Microsoft on Friday, is a shot across the bow of backers of the open-source Ogg Theora video codec, used by Mozilla to bring HTML5 video technology to Firefox. Both Apple and Microsoft plan to use the h.264 codec in their HTML5 strategy, which is governed by a licensing body called MPEG LA. Apple and Microsoft, along with a host of tech companies, are also members of that group.
On a separate note, Apple’s (or Steve Jobs’) hypocrisy which we mentioned the other day is being exposed and criticised in Ars Technica which writes:
Pot, meet kettle: a response to Steve Jobs’ letter on Flash
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Part of the reason why Flash and iPhone OS are proprietary is that Adobe and Apple agreed to the terms of the H.264 patent license. H.264, despite Jobs’s claim, is not a free standard—patents necessary to implement it are held by a group that requires all users to agree to a license with restrictive terms. Those terms have previously even been unavailable for examination online. We are publishing them on fsf.org today in order to comment on their unethical restrictions. The fact that H.264 is a commonly used standard does not make it a free standard—the terms of its use are what matter, and they require all licensed software to include the following notice:
THIS PRODUCT IS LICENSED UNDER THE AVC PATENT PORTFOLIO LICENSE FOR THE PERSONAL AND NON-COMMERCIAL USE OF A CONSUMER TO (I) ENCODE VIDEO IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE AVC STANDARD (“AVC VIDEO”) AND/OR (II) DECODE AVC VIDEO THAT WAS ENCODED BY A CONSUMER ENGAGED IN A PERSONAL AND NON-COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY AND/OR WAS OBTAINED FROM A VIDEO PROVIDER LICENSED TO PROVIDE AVC VIDEO. NO LICENSE IS GRANTED OR SHALL BE IMPLIED FOR ANY OTHER USE. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED FROM MPEG LA, L.L.C. SEE HTTP://WWW.MPEGLA.COM
You’ll find similar language in the license agreements of Final Cut Studio, Google Chrome, Mac OS X, and Windows 7.
A Red Hat-run Web site covered this conundrum and so did another which went with the headline: “Meet the Hypocrites: Steve Jobs”
That led to the following paragraph:
Adobe’s Flash products are 100% proprietary. They are only available from Adobe, and Adobe has sole authority as to their future enhancement, pricing, etc. While Adobe’s Flash products are widely available, this does not mean they are open, since they are controlled entirely by Adobe and available only from Adobe. By almost any definition, Flash is a closed system.
Notice anything curious about that paragraph? It’s a perfect description of Apple’s own business practices! Just replace “Adobe” and “Flash” with “Apple” and “iPhone”, “iPad”, “iPod/iTunes”, or “Mac” and you get a nicely worded four sentence critique of Jobs’ own company. Seriously… How can Jobs talk about openness when his notoriously secretive company is not only hypocritically on the warpath against Adobe, but recently goaded police into initiating a criminal investigation over the disappearance of Apple’s fourth generation iPhone prototype, which was lost by one of Jobs’ own employees!?
For some background about this, see [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]. Apple has spin on the sin.
Adobe is already drifting towards Linux by “giving employees Android phones with Flash,” according to Apple Insider.
Following Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ public attack on Flash this week, Adobe is now reportedly planning to give its employees Android phones running Flash.
Three sources familiar with Adobe’s plans told CNet that Adobe plans to give its employees mobile phones powered by Google’s Android mobile operating system, and running a new mobile version of Flash created for the platform. Adobe reportedly has not yet decided which Android phone it will give its employees, though “various HTC phones and the Nexus One” were specifically mentioned.
A reader of ours wrote just to say that “Adobe responds to Apple on Flash” and that it “Just goes to show what happens when you do business with a closed source company.” From the BBC he quotes a report which says that “Adobe confirms plans to move away from Apple” and in it Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen is quoted as saying that “when you resort to licensing language” to restrict development, it has “nothing to do with technology”.
“Our view of the world is multi-platform.”
–Adobe CEO Shantanu NarayenFurther it says: “He said it was now “cumbersome” for developers who were forced to have “two workflows”.
“Mr Narayen said the problems highlighted by Mr Jobs were “a smokescreen”.
“He added that if Flash crashed Apple products it was something “to do with the Apple operating system”.
“He said he found it “amusing” that Mr Jobs thought that Flash was a closed platform.
“”We have different views of the world,” Mr Narayan told the Wall Street Journal. “Our view of the world is multi-platform.””
Our reader also made us aware that “Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 shuns open video”, which shows quite clearly that Microsoft’s ‘embrace’ of HTML5 was an embrace, extend, and extinguish move (who didn’t see that coming?). Microsoft may have embraced <video> only to ensure that Theora is not supported in it. For shame, Microsoft. Apple does the same thing and it's not surprising. Here is Microsoft’s spin in Slashdot and the original post that says:
H.264 is an industry standard, with broad and strong hardware support.
Define “industry standard”. What about software patents?
Our reader has insisted that Microsoft merely embraces “open ‘standards’ [with scare quote]” and that “Microsoft [is] yet again playing the ‘open standards’ shuffle.” He argues that Microsoft is more or less saying: “You can use our open codecs but only on our closed proprietary system, and as long as you pay us our royalties.”
“Microsoft [is] yet again playing the ‘open standards’ shuffle.”
–Anonymous readerApple and Microsoft are very much together in this. To them, Free software is a common enemy which is very strong and at the very least forces Microsoft and Apple to keep their prices down.
Here is a new article titled “In Mobile Video Standards Fight, Consumers Are Poised to Lose” and signs that Korea finally learns its lessons from ActiveX [1, 2] and moves further away from Internet Explorer, which does not support Theora, either. From Mozilla we learn:
For those of you who have followed my blog, you know that it has been 3 years since I first reported on the fact that Korea does not use SSL for secure transactions over the Interent but instead a PKI mechanism that limits users to the Windows OS and Internet Explorer as a browser. Nothing fundamentally has changed but there are new pressures on the status quo that may break open South Korean for competition in the browser market in the future.
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Dr. Keechang Kim of Korea University has been working tirelessly for many years to try to change the status quo in Korea around browsers and the reliance on a PKI mechanism that is tied to one platform. With concern being raised by different parts of the Korean government, including the Korean Communications Commission as well as the Office of the President of Korea, Keechang has gathered a very interesting panel of presentations for April 29th in Seoul. The panelists will be addressing the (Korean) Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) which is the regulatory body in Korea that is currently mandating the PKI mechanism that is in place today (which requires Active-X, etc.) Unless the FSS relaxes or changes their regulations, Korean banks cannot offer other mechanisms for Korean users to bank online, etc. In short, unless the FSS changes their stance, nothing will change in Korea.
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Thank you to Keechang and everyone in the OpenWeb.or.kr community for your tireless efforts to try to break open the Korean market. Thank you also to Channy Yun who has put aside his own schedule in order to participate and guide Lucas in Seoul. There is still a long road to walk to an open, competitive market in S. Korea for browsers, but I am starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Speaking of security, Netcraft writes about security issues and points out that “Windows users are vulnerable to flaw in Java Web Start”. Korea ought to change its preferred platform too.
One might argue that Apple’s big sin here is that it’s greedy and that the same applies to Microsoft. But in fact, both companies misbehave in ways that go beyond this. “Boycott Apple,” says a new headline from LinuxToday’s editor, stating the case against Apple for its abuse of bloggers.
This is an abuse of police powers, an exercise in intimidation. The message is clear: annoy Apple, and Apple will crush you like a bug. A more appropriate response would have been dueling lawyers firing subpoenas at each other and racking up the appropriate number of billable hours. The most appropriate response would have been “Oops, we goofed, we let one of our trade secrets out, we need to be more careful.”
Trade secrets are exposed all the time. Execs lose things. Employees blab. Some journalists feel it is beneath their dignity to take advantage of such lapses. But it is not our job to protect their trade secrets, and especially not in this era of intellectual property madness where the balance of power is tipped heavily into the hands of big business, and every last little thing that displeases the corporate overlords is criminalized.
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At best, in my un-legal but common-sense opinion, this is a minor civil matter, and surely not a criminal case that warrants a door-busting raid and possible felony charges. Both Mr. Hogan and Mr. Chen face possible felony charges, which is utterly insane.
Attacking messengers seems to be Apple’s unofficial way out of it after it bullied Gizmodo and received bad press (context below). █
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